America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Suffering makes a man to seek for his Saviour.

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.